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Country: Brazil Year: 24.04.1977 Dur: 33.53 Archbishop Helder Camara of Recife, who is sometimes called the “Red Archbishop” by the ruling classes of Brazil, is known all over the world as the leading voice of the oppressed people of Latin America. This film traces his daily life and portrays the ideas and the hopes of one of the most significant churchmen of the century. -
Country: Brazil Year: 07.10.1977 Dur: 30.02 The bishops of Brazil took a courageous stand against the Brazilian military regime and spearheaded the fight for human rights. -
Country: Brazil Year: 14.10.1977 Dur: 27.32 Sao Paulo with a population of 10millions<1977>, increasing by half a million every year, is the fastest growing city in South America. Led by their Archbishop, Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, missionaries are using new ideas and approaches in their tasks of applying the Gospels to the harsh realities of life. -
Country: Brazil Year: 21.10.1977 Dur: 25.34 Every new missionary on arrival in Brazil spends four months in Rio de Janeiro learning about the country, its language, its culture and its people. Filmed during the week of carnival in Rio, this film gives us an introduction to Brazil as we join a group of newcomers at CENFI – Centre for Inter-Cultural Formation. -
Country: Brazil Year: 28.10.1977 Dur: 26.38 Father Sean Myers, a Redemptorist missionary is at once priest, dentist, mechanic and guide to the 27,000 people living in a remote corner of the Brazilian interior. Although he is affectionately known as “Padre Joao” by his people, there are many that think his approach is outmoded. -
Country: Brazil Year: 12.8.1992 Dur: 27.36 The Archdiocese of Recife in northeast Brazil was a hotpot of Catholic Church politics when the new Archbishop, who replaced the charismatic and left-wing Dom Helder Camara adopted a strong conservative line that led to a lot of controversy. He closed seminaries and church organisations and fired 75% of the priests, which included Fr. Tony Terry from Cork. Thousands of lay people and many priests sought the dismissal of this bishop who came from Rome to “Put the house in order.” -
Country: Brazil Year: 19.08.1992 Dur: 26.34 The Latin American Church serves a continent with outrageous differences between rich and poor. Liberation theology and the “preferential option for the poor” have been an important influence in directing clergy and lay people to deal with poverty. But what is the reality for priests and nuns living and working with the poor and what are the views of their church superiors? -
Country: Brazil Year: 02.09.1992 Dur: 26.22 Between 1510 and 1800 it is estimated that eleven million slaves were shipped to the ‘New World’ from Africa. Twenty percent on board ship died during the journey across the Atlantic. Another thirty percent died in the course of being “broken into slavery” – a cruel process euphemistically called “seasoning”. Today , 60% of Brazilians have black ancestry. But despite this fact, blacks are still treated as socially inferior by Brazilians of European origin. -
Country: Brazil Year: 09.09.1992 Dur: 26.29 Thirty years ago, 90% of Brazilians gave their religious affiliations as Roman Catholic. No longer. A percentage of Brazilians join a variety of new evangelical sects every year. Different reasons are given for this significant drift from the old religion, but all seem to agree the shortage of priests and religious has much to do with it. This bring to the fore the question of celibacy – which won’t go away. If the law of celibacy were to be changed, would the loss be greater than the gain?
